Alaa Abdalla

Alaa Abdalla is a postdoctoral researcher at the Philosophy and Ethics group at Eindhoven University of Technology. Her primary research focus is understanding epistemological perspectives in engineering education systems. More specifically, she is working at the intersection of answering philosophical questions concerning knowledge in an educational setting, including challenge-based learning.  

Alaa worked on empirically driven educational research. She finished her PhD in engineering education at Virginia Tech in 2023. During that time, she was an affiliate researcher at the Center for Global Higher Education (Oxford, England).

Prior to that, she completed a bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University Qatar, where she was awarded with the Transformative Educational Experience Grant to start her research journey.